Encostic Wax and Found Materials

Sunday, July 26, 2009


This is the fourth piece. My hand under tension. My actual hand is on the right, pulling the string to cut on the light. I recieved inspiration for the dyptic by deciding to draw the lightbulb... Then thought it'd be cool to do one lights out, one lights on. So, that's what I did. Left says lights out, right says lights on. My hand could definitely be better, but I'm pleased with my lightbulb, and with the piece overall. Click on it to see it bigger... I was too lazy tonight to crop the image.

This is the new and improved, hopefully, inside of my closet. My wonderous chuck taylors, once again, however in different colors. The middle square is light pink, fyi... you just can barely tell.

Sunday, July 19, 2009


So, another "just for fun" piece. This started out as a pencil sketch, of pencils in our pencil drawer. We are running very low on pencils actually, being the summer and all. But Oh My...I do like this one. As always, I have to give what all is wrong with it, like.... there is some sploosh on the pencils at the very, very, bottom center of the piece. I picked the color yellow for the... what should that be called? A Splat? Yes... A Splat I think....Because pencils are yellow!!! My pencils looked better in pencil, but they weren't as bold as the horizontal lines/lettering, so, I had to make them stand out, and then, the Splat looked distracting and not purposedly created, so I had to make it bolder with a black outline... And yes ladies and gentlemen, you are looking at my pencil drawer. Just lovely.

So, I am posting some summer art work, that I am just doing for fun, not homework, but you know, I thought I'd share. This is called "Sunglasses", as you can see is scrawled along the left side of the board. And...hopefully you can see the image for the title. This isn't my favorite, both this piece, and the piece above started out as pencil sketches, but I kept adding more and more. I used the same material twine for each of what would be plastic on these sunglasses, that I used on "Trapped inside of a Closet". I like the material. The twine is brown but I painted it purple and put liquitex over it. Then I added Black fabric for the shades, and incorporated some of it again along the left edge. It is cut very ragged, which is why I think I went too fast. I need to slow down. But then it looked plain so I added some pattern to the background....and...yeah...sunglasses...everybody...

Tuesday, July 14, 2009


Definitely not my best. I was rushed on this one, seeing how the date slipped my mind...I've been spending a lot of time at the beach you see. However, I do like the idea... This picture cuts out the edges of my piece. :( It's the architectural piece, I have a billion copies of this same view. I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT!!! But anyway, I'm going to post some other versions of the same thing... but they aren't much better from this here. This view is across the marsh, which is the title of the piece, in Myrtle Beach, where I stayed at a condo. There is part of the balcony in it.
Not my best, but I'll do better. :/